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September 06, 2005

007 Hacks Hayseeds

Seems there's more to the story I posted in July of last year (here and here) about how the Arkansas Highway Dept.'s website had been hacked. According to this morning's NY Post, it wasn't just any old hacker.

Experts inside and outside the government confirmed in recent interviews that an intensive effort has been under way for more than a year to track and shut down the mysterious cyber-ghost, who identifies himself as Irhabi 007 — or "Terrorist 007."

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The FBI has been investigating Irhabi 007 since July 2004, when the Web site of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department was hacked.

The site was transformed into an al Qaeda message board, and links were posted that allowed visitors to view videotapes of Osama bin Laden and tributes to the 9/11 hijackers.

That's not all. Go read the rest for details, but supposedly this person is a fairly major figure in the terrorist world....and may even be an American.

Very strange.

Posted by Rita at September 6, 2005 03:30 AM

Comments

Hmmm, interesting. I'm off to read through the links you provided.
I hope you are doing okay. Haven't commented here in a while.

Posted by: Tam at September 6, 2005 03:29 PM

Hi Tam, long time no see. Weird to think of something like that happening in little ol' Arkansas isn't it?

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 7, 2005 07:37 AM

It definitely is! Unreal.

Posted by: Tam at September 7, 2005 11:25 PM